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NIA filed a charge sheet against 12 persons, including Lashkar-e-Taiba..

The National Investigation Aency (NIA) on Thursday filed a charge sheet against 12 persons, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) chief Hafeez Saeed and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen head Syed Salahuddin, in a case related to alleged funding of terror and secessionist activities in the Kashmir Valley, and sought permission to continue its probe.

The 1,279- page charge sheet was filed before a designated court in New Delhi.

The judicial custody of 10 people arrested in connection with the case ended on Thursday.

Under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the prosecuting agency has to file a charge sheet within 6 months, failing which the accused is/are eligible for bail.

60 locations raided

NIA officials said they had gathered substantial material and technical evidence and 60 locations were raided and 950 incriminating documents seized. There were 300 witnesses in the case.

Noted businessman Zahoor Ahmed Watali was also arrested by the NIA in connection with the case, which was registered after the valley was rocked by violent protests following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen poster boy Burhan Wani in a gunfight with security forces in 2016.

Former JKLF militant Bitta Karate, photo journalist Kamran Yusuf and Javed Ahmed Bhat have also been named in the charge sheet.

The NIA accused Saeed and Salahuddin of fomenting trouble and sending funds to the valley through non-banking channels, they said.

The FIR named Saeed as an accused, besides organisations such as the Hurriyat Conference (factions led by Geelani and Mirwaiz Farooq), Hizbul Mujahideen and Dukhtaran-e-Milat.

NIA records confessional statements

The NIA also recorded confessional statements on the flow of money, especially from Pakistan, from four people accused in a case related to the funding of “terror activities” in Kashmir.

The statements given before a judicial magistrate had tightened the case against the separatists who allegedly funded stone pelters and spread unrest in Kashmir, the officials said.

While three of them have been formally arrested, the fourth one was detained and subsequently let off after he said he would turn approver, the officials said, declining to divulge their names.

A confessional statement is recorded before a judicial magistrate, wherein the accused confirms he or she is giving it without any pressure from the probe agency.

The entire process is videographed and no investigation officer is present in the court during the proceedings. In the case of retraction later, the agency can file a case of perjury.

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